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When choosing a tomato variety, looking at seed bags, the gardener subconsciously sympathizes with heart-shaped tomatoes, like Big Mom. Judging by the "business card", this is a strong plant bush with large fruits. It is not for nothing that breeders dubbed him that. Although this tomato variety is very young, registered in 2015, the plant is rapidly gaining popularity due to its bouquet of valuable properties. Initially, the bushes of these tomatoes were intended for cultivation in greenhouses, but in the south they ripen well in the open field.
Explicit advantages of a new variety
It is worth knowing in advance about the characteristics of the tomato plant itself and its fruits.
- Early maturity: greenhouse bushes give huge red berries within 85-93 days after germination;
- Determinancy: The growth of the Big Mom tomato bush stops as soon as the fifth brush forms on the trunk. From that moment on, his task is to form fruits. Basically, plants of the Big Mom tomato variety reach a height of 60 cm. With increased nutrition, the bushes rise another ten centimeters, very rarely - up to a meter;
- Yield: the weight of ripe tomato fruits starts from the mark of 200 g. In greenhouse conditions, subject to all the requirements of agricultural technology, the total weight of the harvested fruits reaches 9-10 kg per 1 sq. m. In the open field, the fruits are smaller;
- Fruit quality: Tomatoes Big Mom, according to enthusiasts who were the first to start growing a new variety, are excellent. Juicy pulp is balanced in sweetness and acidity. The plus is that there are few seeds in the fruits;
- Transportability: due to the presence of dry matter, the impressive red fruits of the tomato perfectly tolerate transportation;
- Resistance to pathogens of fungal and other diseases... Bushes of the Bolshaya Mamochka variety only in extremely unfavorable conditions and in the absence of care can be affected by spores of late blight, powdery mildew, rot or tobacco mosaic viruses.
Characteristic features of the plant
According to reviews, many gardeners liked the determinant tomato bushes Big Mom because of their rather short stature and, accordingly, a stable, strong stem. On evenly spaced branches of the plant there are some light green, wrinkled, medium-sized leaves, similar to potato. Inflorescences are formed after 5 or 7 leaves, as a rule, they bear five to six fruits. The rhizome of the bush is horizontal.
The gorgeous, bright red fruits fell in love with their rich and pleasant taste.
- The berries of the Big Mom tomatoes are slightly ribbed, elongated downward, resembling a heart. Often there are rounded or slightly tapered, with a spout;
- The fruit has a smooth, dense, albeit thin skin, does not lend itself to cracking;
- The main feature of Big Mom tomatoes is the size of the berry, which weighs from 200 to 400 g;
- The fruits are tasty, with a fleshy and juicy pulp, with a small number of seeds, for which the berry forms 7 or 8 chambers.
This tomato is ideal for fresh salads. The fruits are convenient to use in slicing for canned blanks. At the stage of full ripeness, sauces and pastas are prepared from them.
The specifics of growing seedlings
The fruits of any plant begin with seeds and seedlings. Since the Bolshaya Mamochka tomato variety was developed by the Gavrish selection company, bushes should grow from its seeds that fully retain the declared properties.
Sowing seeds
If the seeds of the Big Mom tomato are sold already processed, they are simply carefully laid out in the soil, deepening by 0.5-1 cm. It is better to purchase the substrate in gardening stores. Garden soil is mixed with peat, river sand and humus, watered with a solution of potassium permanganate. They keep the seeds in the same disinfecting solution for about twenty minutes.
The containers are covered with a film, and after the first shoots it is removed, and during the week the optimum temperature will be 150FROM.
Sprout Support
Delicate tomato seedlings need careful care.
- Tomato seedlings Big Mom requires a lot of light for the formation of the root system. If there is little natural light, they are supplemented with phytolamps;
- Tomato roots develop correctly without additional lighting at a temperature not higher than 160C. When the tomato seedlings get stronger, they are transferred to the heat - up to 250 FROM;
- With the development of two true leaves, the seedlings of tomatoes Big Mom dive and transfer to individual pots, with a volume of at least 300 ml;
- Usually, tomato seedlings do not require feeding, but if the plants are in the greenhouse, the seedlings are watered with a nutrient solution. In 1 liter of water put 0.5 g of ammonium nitrate, 2 g of potassium sulfate and 4 g of superphosphate.
Before planting in open ground, tomato seedlings are hardened, taking out into the air, in the shade, for two weeks.
Care of seedlings in the greenhouse
When the tomato seedling Big Mom reaches 20-25 cm in height, there are already more than 6 leaves on it, it is transferred to a permanent place. The holes are made according to the 40x50 scheme. Before planting young tomato plants, you need to prepare the greenhouse.
Soil preparation
The soil needs to be dug up. Sometimes the soil is removed to a depth of seven centimeters in order to change it to a new one. Usually sod land and humus are used equally, diluted with vermiculite or sawdust. Supplements are needed to maintain air-water balance. The soil mixture is treated by dissolving 2 ml of the biological substance "Fitolavin" per liter of water.
Stores offer ready-made soil for tomatoes. It is placed in the hole when planting a plant.
Top dressing of tomatoes
Having dug a hole, you need to decide where the root will be located, and put 3-7 g of fertilizer for tomatoes, which are purchased in specialized stores, five centimeters from it. Potassium and phosphorus, necessary for plant development and the formation of tomato fruits, are balanced in ready-made dressings. Used drugs "Fertika", "Kemira" and others.
Before flowering, plants are fertilized with nitrogen fertilization. Periodically, Big Mom's tomato bushes are watered with a nutrient solution. To prepare it, 0.5 liters of liquid mullein and 20 g of nitrophoska are placed in 10 liters of water. 5 g of potassium sulfate and 30 g of superphosphate are often added to this mixture.
Blooming bushes of tomatoes Big Mom are in dire need of potassium support. Foliar top dressing with wood ash is best during this period, which will give the seedlings the opportunity to quickly assimilate valuable nutrients. One glass of ash is poured into 1 liter of hot water and insisted for 2 days. Then the infusion is diluted and the plants are sprayed.
Watering, pinching and garter
Greenhouse tomato bushes Big Mom love warm water, about 200 FROM.
- Water the plants only at the root once a week;
- It is impossible to overmoisten the earth;
- The tomato plant needs more water when the fruits begin to form;
- Tomato bushes in greenhouses are watered only in the morning.
After the earth dries up, it is loosened and mulched. Greenhouses must be ventilated and monitored for air humidity.
The branches that begin to grow on the tomato bushes in the leaf axils must be removed.
- Tomato bushes are grown every 15 days;
- On the plant, only one branch is removed at a time, otherwise the seedling will get sick;
- The lowest stepchild, or two, is left to form a powerful bush of 2 or 3 stems.
In advance, you need to take care of the trellises, to which, as the tomato bush grows, the branches are tied. With the beginning of the growth of green fruits, the leaves from the bush are gradually cut off.
In greenhouses, tomato harvest is guaranteed even in cool summers.
